Cabinet for needle-packages, &amp;c.



J. H. BOYE.

CABINET FOR NEEDLE PACKAGES, dw. APPLICATION FILED 111111.23. 1909.

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J. H. BOYE.

CABINET FOR NEEDLE PACKAGES, duo.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 23. 1909.

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JAMES H.. BOYE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE IBOYE NEEDLE COMPANY,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A

CABINET FOR NEEDLE-PACKAGES, &c.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Jan. 18, 1910.

Application led August 23, 1909. Serial No. 514,227.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. Born, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cabinets for Needle-Packages, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to means adapted for storing and displaying packages of needles, etc., in such manner as to enable a salesman to quickly select the desired package and effect a sale.

My primary object is to provide a very simple and cheaply manufactured device especially adapted for the purpose indicated.

The invention is illustrated in its preferred embodiment in the accompanying` drawings in which Figure 1 represents a front face view of my improved cabinet; Fig. 2, a sectional view taken as indicated at line 2 of Fig. 1, the cabinet being shown boxed for shipment, however; Fig. 3, an edge elevational view of the cabinet; Fig. 4, a view of a blank employed in forming the receptacles; Fig. 5, a sectional view taken as indicated at line 5 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 6, a broken rear elevational view of the main plate of the cabinet.

In the construction illustrated, A represents my improved cabinet; and B, a box adapted to contain the same. The cabinet A preferably comprises a sheet-metal plate 1 equipped on its front face with receptacles 2; and a brace 3 detachably connected with the rear surface of the plate 1 and adapted to support the plate in substantially a standing position. The receptacles 2 are arranged in vertical rows and also in transverse rows. The receptacles are open-topped receptacles, and each transverse row of receptacles may loe formed by stamping a blank of the character shown in Fig. l so as to form partial walls for the receptacles and then combining the preparatorily stamped part with the plate 1. The blank shown in Fig. l is designated 1, and comprises a strip of sheet-inetal cut to afford end-forining flaps 5, a bottom-formino' llap 6, and lateral wall flaps 7. The endorming 'Iiaps 5 are equipped with lugs, or tenons, S, and the bottoin-forming flap 6 is equipped with a tenon 9. In the forming operation, the endflaps 5 and bottom-flap 6 are bent at right angles to the body of the strip. At the Sametime the lateral wall-flaps 7 are also bent at right angles to the body of the strip. rllhe plate 1 is preparatorily provided near its vertical edges with perforations 11, and centrally with a perforation 12. These perforations are adapted, respectively, to receive the tenons 8 and 9, which, after insertion, are bent or riveted. Then the strip is thus secured to the plate, the edges 13 of the flaps 7 abut against the front face of the plate, and said aps thus form lateral walls for the receptacles. In cutting the blank to form the aps 7, a curved projection 14 is left which ali'ords an upward extension of the front wall of the receptacle. By combining a number of preparatorily stamped strips with the plate 1 and applying the sanie one above the other in horizontal position, the result is to provide the receptacles arranged in both vertical and transverse rows.

At the upper end of each vertical row of receptacles the plate is equipped with commodityindicating characters; Thus, the first vertical row is marked Style 1; the second row, Style 2, etc. On the reverse side of the plate 1 is provided a table A1. This table, as shown, comprises vertical rows of names of sewing-machines, with a styleiiuinber set opposite each name, so that the style-numbers are arranged in vertical rows. Above each row of numerals appears the words Style No. Only a portion of the table A1 is illustrated in Fig. 6. The stylenumbei's of the table correspond with the cominodity-indicating characters which appear at the upper end of the vertical rows of receptacles shown in Fig. 1. Diiferent sizes of needles of the saine style-number are placed in the several receptacles of each vertical iow, so thatone may select any desired size of a given style of needle from one vertical row. In Fig. 1, part of the receptacles are shown filled with needle packages 15.

The rear surface of the plate 1 is equipped brace Said socket may be formed by striking parallel strips of metal rearwardly, said strips being severed from the plate, eX-

understood from Figs. 5 and G. The brace 8 has a foot-portion 17 at its lower end adapted to rest upon a counter or show-case, and a bent portion 1S at its upper end adapted to enter the socket 16. When the brace is secured to the plate, it will serve to support with a vertical socket, or guide, 16 for the 109 cept at one vertical edge, as will be clearly the plate in a slightlrv rearwardly inclined position, inucli after the inanner in which an easel is supported. Then it is desired to ship a cabinet, together with packages of needles contained in the receptacles, the brace may be reinored, and the device niay be placed in a pasteboard box in the inanncr illustrated in Fig. 2.

The use ot' the device will be readily understood. The cabinet, standing upon a counter or show-case, serves as a means 'for storing and displaying the needle packages in such inanner as to enable the packages to be readilyv selected by the sales clerk in effecting sales. llllien a customer desires a needle for a sewing-machine of a given naine, the clerk looks at the table on the rear surface ot' the plate l, and inds the stylenunrber corresponding with the naine oit the sewing-1nachine- He then glances at the connnodity-indicating characters at the upper ends ot' the Vertical rows of receptacles and selects the style-number corresponding It i with the naine otl the sewing-machine.

is then an easy matter to select the desired size of needle troni the rertical rowof packages thus indicated .is further aid to the eye which will enable the clerk to select the Vertical row at a glance, the wrappers or' the needles of ditlerent styles are usually given dil'lerent colors. This feature 'forms no part oi the present invci'ition, however.

lllhat I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

cabinet comprising a plate and a plurality of similar horizontally disposed transverse strips applied thereto immediately adjacent said plate, each of said. strips having a flap 'forming a bottoni wall for receptaclesI and haring inwardl)v struck flaps aifordiilg lateral walls for receptacles, each strip havingl a plurality oit recesses in its upper portion corresponding with the several receptacles tor which the said strip aii'ords walls.

JAMES H. BOYE. ln presence of- J. Gr. ANDEnsoN, R. A. SCHAEFER. 

